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Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Public sale at Christie’s


You probably have a spare £50-£80,000 mendacity round, you would possibly be capable of choose up JRR Tolkien’s writing desk in an public sale at Christie’s. The desk is a late nineteenth Century Merton Faculty desk, and is a part of Christie’s upcoming Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time public sale which celebrates groundbreaking discoveries and achievements of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Additionally out there would be the unique paintings for the primary version of Warhammer.

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The public sale shall be going down at 11 December at 4pm GMT at Christie’s in London.

Christie’s is happy to current Groundbreakers: Icons of our Time, a brand new public sale providing a curated number of works that replicate the groundbreaking discoveries and achievements of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Spanning pure historical past, cinema, music, literature, vogue, sport and expertise, Groundbreakers celebrates the perfect of human endeavour and showcases cultural touchstones of the trendy period.

Main with the exceptional Spike, marking the debut of the long-lasting Caenagnathid at public sale, supplied works vary from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Merton Faculty desk to early letters by Ayrton Senna, which supply unparalleled perception into the thoughts of Components 1’s biggest driver. Additional highlights embody the 1931 annotated draft of the London Underground, the unique paintings for the primary version of Warhammer, and the primary version of Turing’s On Computable Numbers — with additional groundbreaking treasures to be revealed within the coming weeks.

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